Following is a collection of
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we feel most can understand. We will also be including personal experiences
with visits to the Halls of Records as well as including graphic representations
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Akashic Records..

Akashic Records

A theosophical term referring to an universal
filing system which records every occurring thought, word, and action.
The records are impressed on a subtle substance called akasha (or Soniferous
Ether). In Hindu mysticism this akasha is thought to be the primary principle
of nature from which the other four natural principles, fire, air, earth,
and water, are created. These five principles also represent the five senses
of the human being.

Some indicate the akashic records are similar to a
Cosmic or collective consciousness. The records have been referred to by
different names including the Cosmic Mind, the Universal Mind, the collective
unconscious, or the collective subconscious. Others think the akashic records
make clairvoyance and psychic perception possible.

It is believed by some that the events recorded upon
that akasha can be ascertained or read in certain states of consciousness.
Such states of consciousness can be induced by certain stages of sleep,
weakness, illness, drugs, and meditation so not only mystics but ordinary
people can and do perceive the akashic records. Some mystics claim to be
able to reanimate their contents like they were turning on a celestial
television set. Yogis also believe that these records can be perceived
in certain psychic states.

Certain persons in subconscious states do read the
akashic records. An explanation for this phenomena is that the akashic
records are the macrocosm of the individual subconscious mind. Both function
similarly, they possess thoughts which are never forgotten. The collective
subconscious gathers all thoughts from each subconscious mind which can
be read by other subconscious minds.

An example of one who many claimed successfully read
the akashic records is the late American mystic Edgar Cayce. Cayce did
his readings in a sleep state or trance. Cayce's method was described by
Dr. Wesley H. Ketchum who for several years used Cayce as an adjunct for
his medical practice. "Cayce's subconscious...is in direct communication
with all other subconscious minds, and is capable of interpreting through
his objective mind and imparting impressions received to other objective
minds, gathering in this way all knowledge possessed by endless millions
of other subconscious minds." Apparently Cayce was interpreting the collective
subconscious mind long before the psychiatrist C.J. Jung postulated his
concept of the collective unconscious. A.G.H.

The Akashic Records or "The Book
of Life" can be equated to the universe's super computer system.
It is this system that acts as the central storehouse of all information
for every individual who has ever lived upon the earth. More than just
a reservoir of events, the Akashic Records contain every deed, word, feeling,
thought, and intent that has ever occurred at any time in the history of
the world. Much more than simply a memory storehouse, however, these Akashic
Records are interactive in that they have a tremendous influence upon our
everyday lives, our relationships, our feelings and belief systems, and
the potential realities we draw toward us.

It is no exaggeration to state that the computer has
transformed (and is still in the process of transforming) the entire planet.
Whether it's technology, transportation, communication, education, or entertainment,
the computer age has revolutionized the globe and the ways in which we
understand and interact with one another. No segment of modern society
has gone unaffected. The amount of information now stored in computer memory
and crossing the Internet highway daily is literally unfathomable. And
yet, this vast complex of computer systems and collective databases cannot
begin to come close to the power, the memory, or the omniscient recording
capacity of the Akashic Records.

The Akashic Records contain the entire history of every
soul since the dawn of Creation. These records connect each one of us to
one another. They contain the stimulus for every archetypal symbol or mythic
story which has ever deeply touched patterns of human behavior and experience.
They have been the inspiration for dreams and invention. They draw us toward
or repel us from one another. They mold and shape levels of human consciousness.
They are a portion of Divine Mind. They are the unbiased judge and jury
that attempt to guide, educate, and transform every individual to become
the very best that she or he can be. They embody an ever-changing fluid
array of possible futures that are called into potential as we humans interact
and learn from the data that has already been accumulated.

Information about these Akashic Records  this Book
of Life can be found in folklore, in myth, and throughout the Old and
New Testaments. It is traceable at least as far back as the Semitic peoples
and includes the Arabs, the Assyrians, the Phoenicians, the Babylonians,
and the Hebrews. Among each of these peoples was the belief that there
was in existence some kind of celestial tablets which contained the history
of humankind as well as all manner of spiritual information.

The first reference in Scripture
to some unearthly volume is found in Exodus 32:32. After the Israelites
had committed a most grievous sin by worshiping the golden calf, it was
Moses who pleaded on their behalf, even offering to take full responsibility
and have his own name stricken "out of thy book which thou hast written"
in recompense for their deed. Later, in the Old Testament, we learn that
there is nothing about an individual that is not known in this same book.
In Psalm 139, David makes reference to the fact God has written down everything
about him and all the details of his life  even that which is imperfect
and those deeds which have yet to be performed."

For many individuals this Book of Life is simply an
imagery symbol of those destined for heaven and has its roots in the custom
of recording genealogical records of names or perhaps early census taking.
Traditional religion suggests that this book â€ either in literal
or symbolic form â€ contains the names of all those who are
worthy of salvation. The Book is to be opened in connection with divine
judgment (Dan. 7:10, Rev. 20:12). In the New Testament, those redeemed
by Christ are contained within the Book (Philippians 4), those not found
in the Book of Life will not enter the kingdom of Heaven.

As an interesting corollary, in the ancient world,
a person's name was symbolic of his or her existence. According to Sir
James George Frazer, author of The
Golden Bough "one of the most extensive volumes on world mythology"
there was such a bond between one's name and one's existence "that magic
may be wrought on a man just as easily as through his name as through his
hair, his nails, or any other material part of his person." In ancient
Egypt, to blot a name out of a record was equivalent to destroying the
fact that the person had ever even existed.

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Original Cover of Edgar
Cayce's Book "The Akashic Record"

Closer to our current era, a great deal of contemporary
information on the Akashic Records has been made available by both reputable
psychics and modern-day mystics â€ individuals who have somehow
perceived beyond the limits of three dimensions. According to H.P. [Helena
Petrovna] Blavatsky (1831-1891), Russian immigrant, mystic, and founder
of the Theosophical Society, the Akashic Records are much more than simply
an account of static data which may be gleaned by a sensitive; instead,
the records have an ongoing creative stimulus upon the present:

Akasha is one of the cosmic
principles and is a plastic matter, creative in its physical nature, immutable
in its higher principles. It is the quintessence of all possible forms
of energy, material, psychic, or spiritual; and contains within itself
the germs of universal creation, which sprout forth under the impulse of
the Divine Spirit. - Alchemy and the Secret
Doctrine

Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian-born philosopher,
educator, and founder of the Anthropomorphically Society possessed the
ability to perceive information beyond the material world: a "spiritual
world" which was just as real to him as the physical world was to others.
Steiner claimed that the ability to perceive this other world could be
developed, enabling an individual to see events and information every bit
as concrete as the present:

...man can penetrate to the eternal origins
of the things which vanish with time. A man broadens his power of cognition
in this way if he is no longer limited to external evidence where knowledge
of the past is concerned. Then he can see in events what is not perceptible
to
the senses, that part which time cannot destroy. He penetrates from transitory
to non-transitory history. It is a fact that this history is written in
other characters than is ordinary history. In gnosis and in theosophy it
is called the "Akasha Chronicle"...To the uninitiated, who cannot yet convince
himself of the reality of a separate spiritual world through his own experience,
the initiate easily appears to be a visionary, if not something worse.
The one who has acquired the ability to perceive in the spiritual world
comes to know past events in their eternal character. They do not stand
before him like the dead testimony of history, but appear in full life.
In a certain sense, what has happened takes place before him. - Cosmic
Memory

"Upon time and space
is written the thoughts, the deeds, the activities of an entity "as in
relationships to its environs, its hereditary influence; as directed" or
judgment drawn by or according to what the entity's ideal is. Hence, as
it has been oft called, the record is God's book of remembrance; and each
entity, each soul "as the activities of a single day of an entity in the
material world" either makes same good or bad or indifferent, depending
upon the entity's application of self towards that which is the ideal manner
for the use of time, opportunity and the expression of that for which each
soul enters a material manifestation. The interpretation then as drawn
here is with the desire and hope that, in opening this for the entity,
the experience may be one of helpfulness and hopefulness. - Edgar Cayce reading
1650-1

In terms of contemporary insights, perhaps the most
extensive source of information regarding the Akashic Records comes from
the clairvoyant work of Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), Christian mystic and founder
of A.R.E. For forty-three years of his adult life, Edgar Cayce possessed
the uncanny ability to lie down on a couch, close his eyes, fold his hands
over his stomach, and put himself into some kind of an altered state in
which virtually any type of information was available. The accuracy of
Cayce's psychic work is evidenced by approximately one dozen biographies
and literally hundreds of titles which explore various aspects of his information
and the thousands of topics he discussed.

When asked about the source of his information, Cayce
replied that there were essentially two. The first was the subconscious
mind of the individual for whom he was giving the reading and the second
was the Akashic Records.

Most often, when giving a reading which discussed a
person's soul history and his or her individual sojourn through space and
time, Cayce would begin with a statement such as, "Yes, we have before
us the records of the entity now known or called _________." In discussing
the process for accessing these records, Edgar Cayce described his experience
as follows:

I see myself as a
tiny dot out of my physical body, which lies inert before me. I find myself
oppressed by darkness and there is a feeling of terrific loneliness. Suddenly,
I am conscious of a white beam of light. As this tiny dot, I move upward
following the light, knowing that I must follow it or be lost.

As I move along this path
of light I gradually become conscious of various levels upon which there
is movement. Upon the first levels there are vague, horrible shapes, grotesque
forms such as one sees in nightmares. Passing on, there begin to appear
on either side misshapen forms of human beings with some part of the body
magnified. Again there is change and I become conscious of gray-hooded
forms moving downward. Gradually, these become lighter in color. Then the
direction changes and these forms move upward and the color of the robes
grows rapidly lighter. Next, there begin to appear on either side vague
outlines of houses, walls, trees, etc., but everything is motionless. As
I pass on, there is more light and movement in what appear to be normal
cities and towns. With the growth of movement I become conscious of sounds,
at first indistinct rumblings, then music, laughter, and singing of birds.
There is more and more light, the colors become very beautiful, and there
is the sound of wonderful music. The houses are left behind, ahead there
is only a blending of sound and color. Quite suddenly I come upon a hall
of records. It is a hall without walls, without ceiling, but I am conscious
of seeing an old man who hands me a large book, a record of the individual
for whom I seek information. - Reading 294-19 Report
File

Yes, we have the body here, and the record as has
been made and as may be made with the will as exercised, and the condition
irrespective of the will's influence or effect as has been created. We
have conditions that might have been, that are, and that may be. Do not
get the three mixed up or crossed purposes of either.

304-5

Once given the record, Cayce had the ability to select
the information which would be most capable of assisting the individual
at that time in his or her life. Frequently, a reading might suggest that
only a selection of the available material was being provided, but that
the individual was being given that which would be "most helpful and hopeful."
Additional insights were frequently provided in subsequent readings once
an individual had attempted to work with and apply the information which
had been given previously.

As a means of perhaps alluding to the fact that the
Akashic Records were not simply a transcription of the past but included
the present, the future, and certain probabilities as well, in reading
304-5, Cayce began the reading with a curious statement.

When discussing the Book of Life, he stated it that
it was "The record of God, of thee, thy soul within and the knowledge of
same." (281-33) On another occasion (2533-8) Cayce was asked to explain
the difference between the Book of Life and the Akashic Records:

Q. [What is meant by] The Book
of Life?A. The record that the individual
entity itself writes upon the skein of time and space, through patience;
and is opened when self has attuned to the infinite, and may be read by
those attuning to that consciousness...Q. The Book of God's Remembrances?A. This is the Book of Life.Q. The Akashic Records?A. Those made by the individual,
as just indicated.

2533-8

The Edgar Cayce readings suggest that each of us writes
the story of our lives through our thoughts, our deeds, and our interactions
with the rest of creation. This information has an effect upon us in the
here and now. In fact, the Akashic Records have such an impact upon our
lives and the potentials and probabilities we draw toward us that any exploration
of them cannot help but provide us with insights into the nature of ourselves
and our relationship to the universe.

There is much more to our lives, our histories, and
our individual influence upon our tomorrows than we have perhaps dared
to imagine. By accessing information from the Akashic Records, the universe's
computer database, much might be revealed to us. The world as we have collectively
perceived it is but a faint shadow of Reality.

The word akashic comes from the ancient Tibetan words
"aka meaning place, and "sa" meaning unseen in the sky. When the soul emerges
from the source (or the creating life force, or God), it begins its pre-destined
travel through time and space. Along its travels, it incarnates many times,
growing spiritually and at the same time, fulfilling its purpose.

The soul emits energy with every thought, action or
event that it engages in during its incarnations.

This energy leaves a permanent energetic blueprint.
This blueprint is in the form of a multi dimensional holographic recording
of the actual events, thoughts, feelings and actions of life that the soul
experienced. This hologram is a continuous cinematic display that continues
through time and space. These hologram recordings are the akashic records.
Because every activity of the soul leaves its energy blueprint, the history
of the whole universe is recorded in this hologram - including the history
of our past lives and present life. This is the akashic record of our life.

The akashic records are in the Hall of Records, located
in the akashic plane of the universe, an etheric plane, one of the 7 planes.
These planes are distant energy fields that we can access through the depths
of our minds. Our inner mind can access them because we, along with these
fields, are made up of the same cosmic energy. However, it takes work and
training from the slower 3 dimensional physical reality we are in today
to access the higher vibrational frequencies of these states of reality.
Brief experiences of intuition are subconscious forms of momentary awareness
of our akashic records (without us aware of the "viewing")leading us to
making the right choice or decision (if we follow our intuition).

The akashic records are a very complex existance for
us to understand. There are higher and lower akashic records, each storing
different aspects of universal history.

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